Booooooooooooooo yeah!
Author: Joe Vasicek
Joe Vasicek is the author of more than twenty science fiction books, including the Star Wanderers and Sons of the Starfarers series. As a young man, he studied Arabic and traveled across the Middle East and the Caucasus. He claims Utah as his home.
A curious situation
This funny thing happened to me during church on Sunday, and it’s been puzzling me recently. I almost forgot about it, but it came back to me during work. It doesn’t have a whole lot to do with writing, but I thought I’d post it here to see if anyone could help me understand what’s going on…
Twilight: preliminary thoughts
So, I’m reading Twilight by Stephanie Meyers, to try and figure out what makes this book work. It’s been a really interesting experience so far, but I’m starting to understand why Brandon Sanderson called it “a book for 14 year old girls, or anyone who’s ever been a 14 year old girl.” It hearkens back to a conversation I had with a friend about monkeys and computers…
Writing can be…surprisingly touching
I spent about four hours writing in my novel today, and as I was writing, something completely unplanned and unexpected happened, and at the end of it these two characters were kissing, and it just felt…really good. It really touched me and made them feel like real characters. I sound kind of sappy blogging about this here (and really, the writing itself is probably pretty sappy as well–it’s a rough draft, after all), but it just felt so right…
Thank goodness it’s Friday!
Yes! Thank goodness! Got out of class at two and, after taking care of some chores and stuff, went down to the Provo library for a good two or three hours and just wrote in my novel. It was definitely a lot cooler than anything else I could have done…
writing despite it all
Life is CRAZY, but I swear I will finish this novel by the 25th of April as I planned!
I <3 Miyazaki
I saw Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind over the weekend with my sisters, and it has been stuck with me all day! Hayao Miyazaki is an incredible film director. I’ve been extremely impressed with all of his movies, and I have a goal to collect all of the ones that he’s made. During all my classes today, I’ve had the theme song in my head (so powerful and beautiful!) and when I got home, I watched short clips from the movie over and over.
Why do I love his movies so much? Besides the beautiful music and the incredible quality of the animation, I’d have to say the fantastic worldbuilding in his films and the way he uses character to make the stories so meaningful…
Mondays are CRAZY.
A quick update before I go to bed…
You Make My Day award
A couple of weeks ago, Riegheena and Gamila both gave me this award, which is kind of nice–I’ve never gotten a blogging award before. The tradition is to hand off the award to a bunch of other bloggers by linking to them, so I picked a few of the blogs that I enjoy to read / look at, and thought I’d link to them here.
I was going to go to bed…
…but then I figured the day wouldn’t be complete without blogging…